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Knowledge and Power: Science in World History

Knowledge and Power: Science in World History

Burns, William

Hardcover

Medieval & Renaissance HistoryGeneral World History

ISBN10: 1138637653
ISBN13: 9781138637658
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Jul 3 2018
Pages: 166
Weight: 0.93
Height: 0.44 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

Knowledge and Power presents and explores science not as something specifically for scientists, but as an integral part of human civilization, and traces the development of science through different historical settings from the Middle Ages through to the Cold War.

Five case studies are examined within this book: the creation of modern science by Muslims, Christians and Jews in the medieval Mediterranean; the global science of the Jesuit order in the early modern world; the relationship between modernization and westernization in Russia and Japan from the late seventeenth to the mid-nineteenth century; the role of science in the European colonization of Africa; and the rivalry in big science between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War. Each chapter includes original documents to further the reader's understanding, and this second edition has been enhanced with a selection of new images and a new chapter on Big Science and the Superpowers during the Cold War.

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